Improved clothes-wringing machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT B. HUGUNIN, OF CLEVELAND, -OH[O.

IMPROVED CLOTH ES-WRINGING MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,313, dated September20, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ROBERT B. HUGUNIN, of Cleveland, county ofCuyahoga., and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful shaft forsecurely attaching, stretching, and holding sheet-rubber or other soft,elastic, or pliable substance for wringing clothes; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which- Figure l represents the driving-shaft, with sheet adjusted, put together, and complete. Fig. 2represents the upper or other shaft, with rubber or sheet attached,ready to be adjusted or rolled up, as Fig. l; Figs. 3 and 4., adjustingrings or collars.; Fig. 5, cross-section of Fig. l, showing the positionof the sheet when adjusted and the manuel' of fastening and holding itsecure; Fig. 6, cross-seetion of a strip of rubber or other substancethat may be used or clamped between the two edges of the sheet formingthe roll.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in all thefigures.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand my invention, Iwill proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the drawings, A represents a metal or wooden shaft in two parts, eachhollowed out in the center, so as when put together to form a shell.One'edge of each of these parts is made sufficiently thin to compress orclampl the two edges ofthe sheet when the two parts are united oradjusted. Along the cla-mp i edges of each part small holes may bedrilled for fastening the opposite edges of the sheet by rivets.

B is a sheet of rubber, or other substance that will answer the purpose,securely attached to the two parts of the shaft A by means of rivets, orotherwise securely. Over this sheet cloth may be used to prevent thestaining of clothes by Contact with the rubber while wringing; thiscloth to be fastened to the edges of the shaft with the rubber and to beofsufcient width to allow the edges to be turned under and held betweenthe rubber and shaft.

C C are two collars or adjusting rings passed over the ends of ytheshaft A, when its parts are pressed together, for the purpose ofsecurely holding them together; D D D, &c., rivets; E, point on thedriving-shaft when the crank is attached. In operation two of theseshafts are used, (as in other wringers,) clothes being passed betweenthem while turning the crank, coming out comparatively dry on theopposite side.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-

l. The sectional shafts A A, substantially as and for the purposesspecified.

2. The sheets B B, adjusted substantially as and for the purposesspecified.

It. B. HUGUNIN.

